Poak vs Pock - What's the difference?
poak | pock |
waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
(Webster 1913)
A pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
To scar or mark with pits
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 23, author=Greg Myre, title=Palestinian Universities Dragged Into Factional Clashes, work=New York Times
, passage=Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel. }}
As nouns the difference between poak and pock
is that poak is waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc while pock is a pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.As a verb pock is
to scar or mark with pits.poak
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* poakeNoun
(-)pock
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